Quotes About Time

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it; but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is. Its thin current slides away, but eternity remains.

If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

History has to live with what was here, clutching and close to fumbling all we had - it is so dull and gruesome how we die, unlike writing, life never finishes.

... life is too short to do the whole.

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

The truest lengthening of life is to live while we live, wasting no time but using every hour for the highest ends. So be it this day.

No matter how organized your ducks are, life can turn on 2 seconds. So, you can't keep on waiting. Because, if you keep on waiting, it's gone.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar

Isn't it strange how life won't flow, like a river, but moves in jumps, as if it were held back by locks that are opened now and then to let it jump forwards in a kind of flood?

There is no shortage of good days. It is good lives that are hard to come by.

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.

Rhythm is the life of space of time danced through.

The most precious thing a human being has to give is time. There is so very little of it, after all, in a life.

The seasons tell us, everything in organic life tells us, that there is no holding on; still, we try to do just that. Sometimes, though, we learn the kind of wisdom that celebrates the open hand.

What makes life valuable is that it doesn't last forever.

And the days are not full enough And the nights are not full enough And life slips by like a field mouse Not shaking the grass

There must be a day or two in a man's life when he is the precise age for something important.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

Life's got to be lived, no matter how long or short. You got to take what comes.